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- _____________ was the great philosopher of Progressivism.
- The _________ industry was the first big business in the United States, and it helped spur the development of a national marketplace.
- In 1890, __________ out of five New York city residents were foreign-born.
- The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor pushed the United States towards war with ________.
- In the 1896 presidential election, the Populists and Democrats supported ___________, an openly religious candidate who preached on behalf of debt-ridden farmers and advocated the free coinage of silver.
- ___________ helped develop the pro-imperial argument for the United States.
- The Emancipation Proclamation liberated every slave in America, including slaves in states that were not part of the Confederacy. T or F?
- The first Grand Review of armies in the United States occurred at the conclusion of the ___________.
- Winston Churchill praised Lincoln's ______ as the ultimate expression of Shakespearean language.
- Andre Johnson angered Republicans in Congress by vetoing a bill to _________.
- The War of 1812 produced two glorious results for the United States; Andrew Jackson's victory in New Orleans and _______ (poem).
- Roughly one of every four soldiers who fought in the Civil War were killed. T or F?
- _____________ was president during the Mexican War and took steps to bring about the start of the conflict.
- The Anti-Federalists played an important role arguing for the adoption of the _______.
- In the Compromise of 1877, Republicans agreed to withdraw the Reconstruction regime that governed the South in order to settle the dispute over the election of _________.
- To solve the financial crisis the United States faced following the Revolution, Alexander Hamilton proposed that the federal government ought to assume the debts of the states, establish a nation bank, and ___________.
- Reconstruction was driven primarily by Congress and not the President. T or F?
- The Compromise of 1850 admitted California into the Union as a free state in exchange for a tougher Fugitive Slave law. T or F?
- The Mexican War reopened the questions that the ______________________ had attempted to settle in 1820.
- The two main proposals to deals with the issue of representation were the ______ Plan, which sought to allocate representatives by population, and the ________ Plan, which sought to allocate an equal number of representative to each state.